Dust it down and start again

A long time has passed since I last blogged, many many things have changed. Here are just a few of them.

I'm not a civil engineer anymore.
I am an Anglican Ordinand.
I am reading a Theology Degree at Durham University.
I am now engaged to Cat which is super exciting.
I have an awesome keyboard (Nord Stage 88 - it rulez)

I think the purpose of this blog may have changed to. I think I shall also use it to muse on theology and the church. I'm sure you're all psyched!

Today's pondering.

I sometimes get the feeling that the journey I am treading with God is wholly new and exciting, like I'm treading a path through snow for the first time. It's the excitement of a child discovering something for the first time. I feel like people must have historically never understood God because if they did, it would feel somehow different.

Then I read things written long, long ago (like Gregory of Nyssa or the thoughts of Thomas Aquinas) and I see a glimmer or perspective of God which stops me in my tracks - the writer has had the same experience as me.

I was thinking why this is. Am I naive or simply proud in thinking that I am the first person to feel like this? I don't think I am in either case. I think it has more to do with the character and nature of God. There is a vibrancy to the relationship which makes it seem fresh, which makes it seem new. God is eternal and to experience relationship with God roots us in His eternal nature. Inherently this brings with it feelings of freshness, of hope and of new beginnings.

To be rooted in the eternal is to be rooted in the forever new.